Hoarding Question for the MS Horde

[Bender420]

So I'm trying to clean up my music collection and I wanted to know how yall go about it. I've got folders for the artists of course, but I also have my collection of radio shows. Essential mixes, MS, the numerous Proton shows, etc. What I'm wondering is how yall go about it? For example, our very own Steve Graham, would you put a Solid Sessions set under that show in a Proton folder? Or just under his own folder? Or would you even save it in both? I like having artist folders and radio show folders, but don't really know how I should go about this. I use Steve as an example because his was the first one I came across today. There are tons other dj's with tons more than what that stingy fucker shares! I've got lots of Proton shows from back when I religiously listened and downloaded those shows. I like having the shows together because if I just had artist folders I might look at a name and not recognize it from say the Release Records show on Proton several years ago.
And I know I'm not the only hoarder of music, nor am I the least anal or organized ( whichever you prefer to call yourself ) here.

Thoughts on the matter?

[lilsensa]

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Arrange by year and genre...Artists will fall under genre....So, depending on your mood, you can just go to the genre.....

[coleby761]

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Strictly by artist for me. And I also have a folders with misc sets from artists I don't have a heavy collection of. Also a pretty large of stuff I've yet to listen to.

[clintlove]

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I always arrange by artist, and only albums get their separate folder but still arranged under that artist.

[unrecogniseduser]

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you geeks

[ganjamo]

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i got music all over my 4 HDs lol. When ever i want to find an artist or anything I use Everything which is a very useful program.

Organizing by genre is kinda hard IMO, most of the artists atm play a variety of genres and its quite difficult to decide who plays what.

just my cinco centavos

[demonAfro]

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Easy! Has taken years of refinement to get something nice. Emphasis on searching and identification, and general OCD.

Firstly, I thoroughly recommend foobar2000. Take a day or two to learn the title formatting and tagging, renaming, organising and searching and anything else you would like to do with your music becomes a delight. I also like to keep tabs on playback stats and scrobbling.

Sets and complete albums go by artist
Set:
%artist%/%artist% - %title%
Album:
%artist%/%album%/%artist% - %album% - %tracknumber% - %title%
VA album:
%album artist%/%album%/%album artist% - %album% - %tracknumber% - %artist% - %title%
Radio:
show_name/%date%/%artist% - %title%
Single tracks:
singles/%artist% - %title%

nota bene:
Most important: Everything has proper id3 and id3v2 tags!! (used to use apev2 but id3v2 is a little better supported on hard wares etc) This is where genre goes and foobar can pick it up from here. New fangled semantic desktops could probably index the tags too?

For sets, album and title tags are identical and contain the original date at the beginning in YYYYMMDD (substituting 00 for unknown) so everything sorts nicely in folders.

Tracklist goes in %unsynced lyrics%

Singles is a little neglected but getting it sorted, will be %genre%/%year%/%artist% - %title% once I sort a decent genre set.


Seriously guys -- if everyone uses this scheme the world would be a much better place :loser:

[chunky]

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I store them all in artist folders

I just relabeled all my music files like so

Year. Month Day Artist Event Venue City Country

Example

(2001.12.29) Deep Dish - Live @ +Soda Club Athens Greece

If I don't have all the info it mite be more like this

(2001.xx.xx) Deep Dish - Live @ +Soda Club Athens Greece

Once I've listened to it I add a dash to the beginning of the file so I know I've listened to it like this (This keeps the files I've listened to seperate to the ones I havent listened to in the same folder)

-(2001.12.29) Deep Dish - Live @ +Soda Club Athens Greece

Radio Broadcasts I label similar

-(2010.02.23) Nick Warren - Sound Garden Frisky Radio Vol #1

Any additional info I mite put on the end

-(2001.12.29) Deep Dish - Live @ +Soda Club Athens Greece [Crowd Recording or Possible Fake]

I wish I had done this when I first started storing music files. It would of saved me the aggro of having to go through them all trying to remember what I had listened to and what I had not.

[jackdaniels]

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One thing I've recently been using is Vista's rating function on every file. Great for helping me weed out crap stuff every time I do a spring clean.

[demonAfro]

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I wish I had done this when I first started storing music files. It would of saved me the aggro of having to go through them all trying to remember what I had listened to and what I had not.

I know what you mean. Why couldn't I have been this anal when I started collecting music foobar playback statistics add tags for date_added, playcount, and last_played I also keep track of everything on last.fm too for mobile devices and stuff.

[threehills]

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Tags are the way to sort rather than folders and file names, much more flexibility.

For example, after I listen to a set, I rate it out of 5 stars. I have auto playlists generated based on ratings that auto sync to my ipod. The list is set up so that it selects 10 random sets that I have rated as 4 stars or above and each time I sync my ipod it puts a different 10 sets on. I further have it set to that it will select sets with lower play counts than those with high play counts, keeping things fresh.

It also is set to put on 10 random sets that I have yet to listen to and rate. Its further setup to choose the ones that are the most recent

I also do the above with singles, main stream music, etc etc. This way I am certain to always I like and something that is sure to be new.

[Bender420]

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tags don't really help me b/c i've got tons of music i've never listened to!
but my main question is still about the artist vs. the radio shows. i like keeping the kiss sets together, and those i have sorted by year and then digweed or guest mix. and i've got tons of the proton shows.

[jackdaniels]

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Perhaps you could sort your files by Artist, and in the Radio folder use a shortcut to link back?

[DIDI]

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Download , use spotlight to find, buy new HD when full

[floridaorange]

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^works for me